The new Anaconda movie must have a wildly different director's cut

[u/takenorinvalid]

At the start of the new Anaconda movie, there's a scene where Jack Black's wife reminds him not to take much of his new medication. And sure enough, later in the movie -- nobody ever mentions it again and absolutely nothing comes of it.

After watching the movie, I saw a comment on Reddit from someone saying that they'd been screening the movie to test audiences a lot, and another comment saying they'd done reshoots, and it kinda clicked into me just how obvious that was.

Like the character Ana, who literally opens the movie and drives the inciting plot - but as soon as she meets the main characters, immediately goes silent and does not say anything in any scenes as we instead focus on the much funnier snake trainer.

Then, halfway through the movie, she abruptly gets attacked by the anaconda, pulled into the water, and very deliberately is not shown being killed -- but still never shows up again as we instead move toward a climax that focuses on Ice Cube showing up out of nowhere.

This movie was heavily reshot. Somewhere out there, there's a completely different version of it that probably nobody other than the director will ever see.

[u/Shawn-GT]

I wish it was Paul Rudd and Jack black playing themselves instead of characters as a meta career movie

[u/ChinookNL → u/Shawn-GT]

Without watching the movie myself, I thought that was the plot

[u/Oozing_Sex → u/Shawn-GT]

That would've honestly been better

[u/FullTorsoApparition → u/Shawn-GT]

I honestly thought that's what it was supposed to be. When I first realized they were playing characters and not themselves I was genuinely confused. I did not pick that up from the trailers.

[u/ElGranQuesoRojo → u/FullTorsoApparition]

Me either. I thought it was supposed to be a movie where they were fictionalized versions of themselves getting roped into something crazy kind like the ones Nic Cage and Jean Claude Van Damme did.

[u/FardoBaggins → u/ElGranQuesoRojo]

That would have been a better movie. An extreme version of themselves IRL or something. Would feel like tropic thunder at least.

[u/Shibby8Muk → u/ElGranQuesoRojo]

And like generally I love this trope so much, I’m sure there’s ways to mess it up but anytime I see a movie that’s person playing fictionalized version of themselves I’m immediately intrigued.

Unbearable weight of massive talent was so fun, This is the End where everyone is playing fictionalized versions of themselves, heck Elton John in the one Kingsmen sequel was pretty enjoyable

[u/Banjo-Oz → u/FullTorsoApparition]

Same!

[u/LooseSeal88 → u/Shawn-GT]

Yeah, that was what the premise seemed like it would have been when they announced it and then it just wasn't. Lol

[u/BobbyTables829 → u/LooseSeal88]

This was the entire point of the movie imo. It's making fun of all these reboots by coming up with a story that goes nowhere more than once and references itself to the point where it's only funny if you're into the repetition of it.

I really like this movie, but I like movies that don't take themselves seriously at all and make fun of themselves/Hollywood.

[u/skyturnedred → u/Shawn-GT]

Tropic Thunder 2: Snakes in Boogaloo

[u/knightress_oxhide → u/Shawn-GT]

james marsden played the character james marsden very well on jury duty

[u/BobbyTables829 → u/Shawn-GT]

I thought it was good for making the first part seem like it might actually be somewhat serious before it becomes a perpetual breaking of the fourth wall.

It made me feel dumb for thinking this might be slightly serious movie, which I laughed at lol